Measuring Household Work: Recent Experience in the United States

Marini, Margaret Mooney; Shelton, Beth Anne

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“…However, the nature of systematic differences between diary and questionnaire estimates may be inter-related with other factors, with Danish data suggesting that women's diary and questionnaire estimates of unpaid work being more divergent than men's (Bonke 2005), the reverse pattern emerging in British data (Kan 2006), and no gender-related divergence, but varying degrees of disparity in the estimates of different age groups in Norway (Kitterød and Lyngstad 2005). In the U.S, both men and women overestimate their housework by about 50% (Marini and Shelton 1993;Press and Townsley 1998;Robinson and Presser 2000). Some contributors to this literature suggest that aggregate estimates generated by the far less expensive direct questions and the more expensive diaries are sufficiently similar that for research questions where the simple aggregate of time in work is central, either diaries or estimates may suffice (e.g.…”

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Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time use Study (AHTUS)

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“…When comparing the distribution of household work as reported by male and female respondents, one finds the well-known pattern of men and women over-estimating their own contribution (Keddi and Seidenspinner 1991;Dannenbeck 1992). The discrepancy in spouses' reporting is not yet well understood (Booth and Welch 1978;Marini and Shelton 1993) but it has been linked to social desirability (Kamo 2000). When interpreting the analyses one needs to bear in mind that the reported contributions to household work are not necessarily the true behaviour but reflect the respondent's subjective view (Höpflinger 1986).…”

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Gender roles and values of children: Childless Couples in East and West Germany

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“…Time-diary data suffer less from this recall bias than questionnaire data (Robinson 2002;Juster & Stafford 1985, 1991Robinson & Bostrom 1994;and Marini & Shelton 1993).…”

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The effect of family structure on parents’ child care time in the United States and the United Kingdom

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Measuring Household Work: Recent Experience in the United States

Cited by 145 publications

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Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time use Study (AHTUS)

Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time use Study (AHTUS)

Gender roles and values of children: Childless Couples in East and West Germany

The effect of family structure on parents’ child care time in the United States and the United Kingdom

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